Agrarian of Camagüey reach program of sale of milk

By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz

In spite of the severe effects of the crisis in the Cuban economy, the boy Leonardo Olivera is partly of those that drank every day cow milk, thanks to the contribution of the cattle peasants of the county of Camagüey.

Daylí Alonso, mother of the small one, acquired each day the container with 917 milliliters of the food that the State subsidizes for those smaller than seven years of age and people with medical diet, besides the supply to infantile circles and hospital centers.

The uninterrupted supply to that population owes himself in good measure to that the agrarian ones affiliated to the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) they reached the sale of 50 million liters hired for the year with the company Milky Products.

With this result they overcome in three million units the registration of the 2008.

Aida Díaz, of the address of the ANAP in Camagüey, said to the AIN that the cattlemen are buried now in marketing with the industry 58 million liters, quantity that means the commitment for the 2009 before the birdcall of the country of elevating the national production to diminish the imports.

She added that the increment sustained in the last times obeys advances in the handling of the flocks, renovation of the mass with animals improves genetically and with more yields, and also to the increase of the purchase price to the producers.

Also, highlighted the growing participation of producers and cooperative in emulatives movements .

In Camagüey a member already overcomes the 340 thousand liters sold to “Milky Products” and other four will close the year with more than 100 thousand each one, while four cooperatives of Credits and Services that contain individual cattlemen, will be millionaire.

Including the administration of Basic Units of Cooperative Production and state farms, the county accumulates 82 million liters sent to the industry, and can that finishes the 2009 with about 93 millions, registration that would surpass that hired and would mean growth in connection with the previous year.